Video; @Neon Leon

[makesascene]

[This is sure another giant turtle. Be it one wearing a blue mask instead of Donnie's usual purple. Thanks to his twin for grabbing him fabric for mask based purposes.]

Blabity blabity blah blah we're all conscripted into a war we don't know the true depths of. [Leo waves a hand dismissively.] Whateverrrr. We'll figure it out. We got butt to kick, names to take, insert heroic speech here. I'll cook you up something inspiring after a bit of a gab session, alright?

[A very normal start to a video post right here. The turtle is seated in his brothers' dorm room, just lazily taking up his space. He is Leisuring.]

I'd like to belatedly say 'sorry if my brother pissed you off', cause apparently Dee has been stirring dramaaaa without me.

Which brings me to the real question, whose gonna spill tea on what my twin has been up to? He's tight-lipped about some stuff, sooo, someone fill a guy in?

[yes, he's starting this conversation WHILE in his brother's room.]

Comments

[egraegis]

I'd be somewhat satisfied with his battle shell.

[He's not gonna rip some guy's spine off...]

[lostdestiny]

His what?

[egraegis]

He wears a metal shell on his back over his real one. That's what he called it.

[lostdestiny]

[ Judgmentally, a little like it’s a weird fetish: ]

You’re really into that sort of stuff…

[ First the Z’Gok shenanigans and now… ]

[egraegis]

It's called having a hobby.

[Maybe try it sometime??]

[lostdestiny]

Wanting to be a turtle isn’t a hobby.

[egraegis]

No one has said anything like that!

[lostdestiny]

[ Over the network there’s just an image of the Z’Gok flying around, with Justice’s feet sticking out for anyone who is reeeeeeally paying attention.

A moment later the image shifts so the Z’Gok is in the water. Like a turtle.

A moment after that, an arrow gets added to the visual. Pointing to the Z’Gok. In case anyone didn’t get that Shinn is implying “this is basically a turtle.”

Turtle turtle turtle. ]

[egraegis]

[.......

the video equivalent of ✔️ READ ]

[lostdestiny]

[ The Z’Gok scene disappears, replaced by Athrun in his Alex Dino get-up, with an arrow pointing to the shades. Another shell, kind of! ]

[egraegis]

What the hell does that have to do with anything?

[SHADES ARE NOT SHELLS, STOP BEING A CHILD]

[coordination]

[ No let him cook, Yzak is watching this over Athrun's shoulder still. ]

[lostdestiny]

[ Shinn has been pushing the limits of network sharing capacities, so now this network search is inadvertently public. ]

Are turtles dinos
Are dinos turtles
What the hell why not

[ Followed by an onscreen look of indignation. ]

[egraegis]

[INDIGNANT RIGHT BACK, why are you making this weirder and weirder-]

Dino isn't for dinosaur, if that's what you're implying. And an alias isn't a shell, either!

[lostdestiny]

What is it for, then?

[ And, damn, Shinn didn't even think about an alias as a shell. It's turtles all the way down. ]

Anyway, you're complaining a lot for someone who's got stuff in common.

[egraegis]

Sometimes names are just names, Shinn. It doesn't need to have any greater meaning.

[Don't overthink it, good grief.]

Are you really going to make such a big deal over the fact that we both happen to find robots interesting to build? That isn't even a strange thing to enjoy in our world...